Audition Date & Time: Saturday, July 19 10AM-2PM & Sunday, July 20th 6PM-10PM

Callbacks: To be announced on a show-by-show basis

Location: Reno Little Theater - Main Theater (147 E. Pueblo St)

Audition material required: Show us your best 1-2 minute monologue.

 

Can't make it to auditions??? Please fill out our Video Submission form by Sunday 7/20 at 10PM or reach out to libby@renolittletheater.org for assistance. https://forms.gle/EE8jSeacWzLVaYaRA

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IF SLOTS ARE FULL and you'd prefer to audition in person, please email libby@renolittletheater.org for information on how to attend (or if you have any other questions). Thank you!

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Shows and cast breakdowns:

 

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1. BIRTHDAY CANDLES
Written by: Noah Haidle
Performance dates:
October 10 - 26, 2025

 

Rehearsals expected to begin August 2025. 

Directed by: Adi Cabral 

 

Synopsis:
Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, an infinity of dreams, and one cake baked over a century. This poignant and funny play takes its audience through the highlights, heartbreaks and extraordinary moments that make up one woman’s ordinary life.

 

Casting Breakdown: 

Full-Length Play, Drama  

3w, 3m

 

Twelve roles, six actors, one goldfish.

ERNESTINE ASHWORTH – Travels from age seven to 107. In that time she will be a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a friend, an aunt, a mother-in-law, a widow, a second wife, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and a great great grandmother.
ALICE – Selfless. Strong. Ernestine’s mother.
KENNETH – Ernestine’s awkward and annoying next door neighbor.
MATT – Chiseled jawline. A middle linebacker on the high school football team. Ernestine’s boyfriend then husband.
BILLY – Sensitive. An ear for music. Ernestine and Matt’s son.
MADELINE – Troubled. Bemused. Beautiful. Erudite. Ernestine and Matt’s daughter. Played by actor playing Alice.
JOAN – Anxious. Very anxious. Billy’s wife.
ALEX – Takes no bullshit. Billy and Joan’s daughter. Played by actor playing Joan.
ERNIE – Ethereal. Vivacious. She doesn’t walk, she glides. Alex’s daughter. Played by actor playing Alice and Madeline.
WILLIAM – Thirteen. Grand. Played by actor playing Matt.
JOHN – A man woken up in the middle of the night. Played by actor playing Billy.
BETH – John’s domestic partner, she quit smoking ten years ago and hasn’t been in a good mood since. Played by actor playing Joan and Alex.

 

2. A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Written by: Charles Dickens, Adapted for the stage by Sam Kebede
Performance dates:
November 14- Dec 21, 2025

 

Rehearsals expected to begin September 2025

Directed by: Lili Abel- Suarez
 

Synopsis:
The classic tale performed with only three performers (race/gender blind). There's magic, music, comedy, and more, all while keeping to the original story.

 

Casting Notes: 

Gender, Age, Race, and Sex are intentionally not specified in this production. Pronouns can be changed.

 

Casting Breakdown: 

Comedy, 3 actors

SCROOGE – A Real “Scrooge”

ACTOR #1 – A Real “Actor #1”

ACTOR #2 – A Real “Actor #2”

 

 

3. THE COTTAGE

Written by: Sandy Rustin
Performance dates:
January 16 - February 8, 2026

 

Rehearsals expected to begin November 2025

Directed by: James Mardock

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Synopsis:
Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward. With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, THE COTTAGE offers a perfect showcase for six actors with endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy, and a happy ending for lovers everywhere.

 

Casting Breakdown: 

Full Length, Comedy

3 men, 3 women

 

SYLVIA – a lovely and rash romantic 

BEAU –  perhaps the best looking man in Britain

MARJORIE – 8 months pregnant, pragmatic and a tad spicy 

CLARKE –  a distinguished gent with a lover's spirit

DIERDRE –  an awfully pretty, sometimes wise, nincompoop 

RICHARD –  a murderous, yet gentle soul

 

 

4. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID

Written by: Sarah Treem
Performance dates:
March 27-April 12, 2026

 

Rehearsals expected to begin February 2026

Directed by: Moira Bengochea
 

Synopsis:
In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. But to Agnes’s dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.

 

Casting Breakdown: 

Full length, Drama

1 man, 4 women

 

AGNES – early fifties, proprietress of the bed and breakfast

PENNY – teenager, Agnes’ daughter

MARY ANNE – mid-twenties, runaway

PAUL – mid-thirties, songwriter

HANNAH – early thirties, traveler

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5. SWEAT

Written by: Lynn Nottage
Performance dates:
May 29 - June 14, 2026

 

Rehearsals expected to begin April 2026

Directed by: Lily Baran

 

Synopsis:
Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

 

Casting Breakdown: 

Full Length, Drama

6 men, 3 women

 

EVAN –  African-American, forties; Jason and Chris's parole officer. Evan exists only in the 2008 timeline

JASON – white American of German Descent, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Jason is the son of Tracey and former close friend of Chris

CHRIS – African-American, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Chris is the son of Cynthia and Brucie and aspires to attend college. He is the former close friend of Jason

STAN – white American of German descent, fifties; Stan runs the bar the characters frequent

OSCAR – Colombian-American, twenty-two/thirty; Oscar initially works at the bar with Stan, but goes on to work at the factory

TRACEY – white American of German descent, forty-five/fifty-three. Tracey is the mother of Jason

CYNTHIA – African-American, forty-five/fifty-three. Cynthia is the mother of Chris and former wife of Brucie

JESSIE – Italian-American, forties

BRUCIE – African-American, forties. Brucie is the father of Chris and former husband of Cynthia

 

 

6. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

Written by: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Performance dates:
July 10- Aug 9, 2026 

 

Rehearsals expected to begin late April 2026  

Directed by: Melissa Taylor
Assistant Direction by: Ryan Hartley 

 

Synopsis:
You all know the classic murder mystery story. There has been an untimely death at a country manor, everyone is a suspect, and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this play is performed by the accident-prone thespians of The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! From Mischief, the creators of the West End smash Peter Pan Goes Wrong, critically acclaimed TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and the Tony Award®-winning Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the original one-act play which started everything going wrong. Over the course of an hour, expect a plethora of disasters from missed lines to falling props. Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!
 

Casting Breakdown: 

One Act, Comedy

6 men, 2 women (flexible casting)

 

ANNIE –   the company's stage manager. American accent.

TREVOR – the company's lighting and sound operator, American accent.

CHRIS – the head of the drama society, directed the play and plays Inspector Carter

JONATHAN – plays Charles Haversham

ROBERT – plays Thomas Colleymoore

DENNIS – plays Perkins

MAX – plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardener

SANDRA – plays Florence Colleymoor​​